Unexpected run.

[Barefoot Gentile]

I ran for the first time today since 7 days and achieved a personal best with speed barefoot. I only had about 5 hours of sleep, and I think it was adrenaline from the birth of my son.

I was out the door at 8:30am, I checked the weather and it was 88 degrees, already. I was psyched because I love running in the heat, short distances of course. So the plan was a 5 miler.

My first two miles I nailed a 7:30 pace, then totally crashed for the next 3. I don't have a garmin just a timex ironman watch and know my mile markers for certain routes like the back of my hand, so I gadge it like that. But my overall pace for the 5 miler was a 8:10 pace.

An old timer once told me if you can run a 8:00 minute mile pace for an hour you can call yourself a runner, and not a jogger. lol!

 

[Barefoot TJ]

Well I guess I'll always be a

Well I guess I'll always be a jogger, and I'm good with that...at least I am putting one foot in front of the other. ;-)

 

[Barefoot Gentile]

I will be a jogger as well,

I will be a jogger as well, trust me. This was a hardcore 65 year old marathoner who had interesting things to say, but of course it's his opinion.

 

[LavaRunner]

Joggers land on their heels

Joggers land on their heels as per definition in the book Jogging.

 

[jschwab]

One time a coworker asked me

One time a coworker asked me if I was "really running" or just jogging. I had done my long run the day before and so I said, "well, I'm slow but I don't think anyone 'jogs' for 14 miles".

 

[Barefoot TJ]

You just tell them you're

You just tell them you're skipping.

 

[LavaRunner]

"the difference between a

"the difference between a runner and a jogger is an entry form" - Running guru Dr. George Sheehan

so I guess if you didbn't enter a race you were jogging :~

 

[Nyal]

 Don't call me a jogger. I

Don't call me a jogger. I hate that term. I am also slow, bumping my head on 10 min miles and have never entered a race. Some of us are just slow.

Call me a jogger to my face and I will throw my shoes at you!

 

[jschwab]

I don't care if I am really

I don't care if I am really jogging, like if I am doing my 13mm pace as an easy run or recovery run. But call my 10-12mm gutbusting race pace jogging and I'll break your face. If there is a danger I will puke on your shoes, it's not jogging.

 

[BFWendyBird]

Good job on the sleep

Good job on the sleep deprived run Anyone who accomplishes anything with a newborn in the house amazes me!

 

[Barefoot Gentile]

I just want to clear things

I just want to clear things up with that comment about jogging and running, which I thought was ridiculous anyways. My intentions was not to offend anyone.

In no way do I get caught up in labeling. Running is running, movement is movement.

 

[C-Dog]

Nyal wroteon't call me a

Don't call me a jogger. I hate that term. I am also slow, bumping my head on 10 min miles and have never entered a race. Some of us are just slow. Call me a jogger to my face and I will throw my shoes at you!

I think the threat of throwing your shoes at someone on a barefoot forum seems hollow.

 

[LavaRunner]

Nyal, You have no shoes to

Nyal, You have no shoes to throw bro! LOL

 

[Barefoot TJ]

We knew the message wasn't

We knew the message wasn't coming from you, Adam. I never took offense from you...or him. I am what I am...a turtle. I'll bet there's a bunch of stuff I'm good at that he isn't (or was in my hay-day), like gymnastics, but I'm not going to call him a "tumbler." Hee.

 

[jschwab]

Yeah, I was just trying to

Yeah, I was just trying to make you feel like the raging gazelle that you are, Adam! And one week after a birth!